{"id":326975,"date":"2026-06-07T22:55:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/326975\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T22:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T22:55:32","slug":"trinity-metro-gets-funding-for-texrail-extension-to-hospital-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/326975\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Metro gets funding for TEXRail extension to hospital district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trinity Metro has received the funding it needs to extend the TEXRail line from downtown to the hospital district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Michael Morris, the director of transportation of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, said Thursday that the agency\u2019s Regional Transportation Council has approved $40 million for the $100 million project. Construction is expected to begin within a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morris said this expansion would be a \u201cgame changer\u201d for the hospital district that, according to him, is growing in restaurants and retail. The TEXRail line runs from downtown to DFW Airport, with stops near the Stockyards, Fort Worth, North Richland Hills and Grapevine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cHaving mobility options creates value, and overnight it would make the hospital district both retail, office, and residential, a terrific new opportunity for Fort Worth,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Morris\u2019 announcement came during a press conference as Trinity Metro announced its plans and preparations for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arlington.org\/fwc26\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:World Cup;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;World Cup&quot;}\" class=\"link \">World Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe have buses, we have trains, no need to rent that rental car, just hop right onto the Tex rail and ride downtown,\u201d Rich Andreski, Trinity Metro President and CEO said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Michael Morris talks about Trinity Metro station\u2019s preparations for World Cup and train rail extension into south Fort Worth\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7b30983edfd60dff419b58b980083a72.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Michael Morris talks about Trinity Metro station\u2019s preparations for World Cup and train rail extension into south Fort Worth<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trinity Metro is expanding its services during starting June 14 for the nine World Cup matches at AT&amp;T Stadium through July. New bus stops, extended hours, and 911 capabilities to accommodate all languages are planned, according to Andreski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cTrinity Metro is going to connect all the major destinations, so we\u2019re going to take people off the road. We\u2019re going to make it affordable to get around while you\u2019re here,\u201d Andreski said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Andreski said he is looking at this like a trial run to see if there is \u201cinterest and ridership.\u201d If so they would be happy to continue to provide these services if they can find funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The World Cup services are built into the Trinity Metro budget, but at this time there is no funding to keep the services year round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Metro has received the funding it needs to extend the TEXRail line from downtown to the hospital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116888,116,118,117,30709,12017,10144,85948,5960],"class_list":["post-326975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-agencys-regional-transportation-council","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-michael-morris","tag-north-central-texas-council-of-governments","tag-north-richland-hills","tag-rich-andreski","tag-trinity-metro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}